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The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The defeat of Cortina's Band. (search)
and arrived here at 9 o'clock next morning, riding sixty-five miles in thirteen hours, accompanied by Don Bacilto Benavides and several citizens of Laredo. With twenty men of the company he met, about two miles from here, Cortina's advanced guard, but ran through them, completely dispersing them; they having left their horses, saddles, and a great many of them left their guns. In five minutes after arriving, they, with Capt. Benavides, went out to attack Cortina, and the above was the result. Cortina escaped with about ten men into Mexico, and never stopped until he got about 12 miles beyond Guerrero. It was a short, but brilliant fight, and one for which Capt. Benavides' company deserves a great deal of credit.--Cortina, it not attacked so promptly, in a few days would give as much trouble, and cost the State an much as he did last year, as nearly all the inhabitants of Zapata county and a great many persons of Guerrero were with Certina, and holding him with '76. sources.